I think that the classpath list in the User's Guide should include the saaj.jar file. Without it, executing the AdminClient application fails with the following exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/soap/SOAPElement at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:509) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:246) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:54) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:193) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:186) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:265) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:262) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:322) You may want to remove the dependency or update the guide. I appreciate all the hard work you have put into axis. Thanks. alan